Football record champion Bayern Munich has entered the e-sport as announced. As the club announced on Monday, Bayern will now be involved in the football simulation "eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer" ("PES") and compete with nine other football clubs in the so-called eFootball.Pro League. The club maintains since this year a sponsoring partnership with the Japanese game maker Konami, the "PES" manufactures.
"We are looking forward to the duels against other top European teams such as FC Barcelona, Manchester United and Juventus Turin, and we deliberately chose to play football simulation games in the field of e-sports," said Bayern's chairman Karl-Heinz. Heinz Rummenigge. Arsenal, Celtic Glasgow, Monaco, Boavista Porto, FC Nantes and Schalke 04 are also in the eFootball.Pro League.
How serious it is about the Bayern interest in e-sports is questionable. "PES" sells much less than "Fifa" from EA, and even in the competing title, the professional scene is significantly smaller than in major e-sports titles such as "League of Legends", "Dota 2" or "Counter-Strike ".
The competition enters its second season this year and starts on December 14 in Barcelona. For his "PES" team, FC Bayern signed the Spaniards Miguel Mestre Oltra, Alejandro Alguacil Segura and Jose Carlos Sanchez Guillen. Coach will be the Austrian Matthias Luttenberger. The games in the eFootball.Pro League are played in "Three against three" mode. Until April, the teams compete on nine regular matchdays before the best six play their champions in co-mode in May.
